Альбомы исполнителя
Can One Man Save the World?
2022 · сингл
Can One Man Save the World
2022 · сингл
Roaring To Go NHL
2022 · сингл
Blood on My Hands (White House Version)
2021 · сингл
Blood on My Hands
2021 · сингл
Amazing Grace (Live from Grace Notes)
2020 · сингл
China on the Horizon 2006
2020 · сингл
All for One Ohana
2020 · сингл
Live with String Quartet
2018 · альбом
Song for the Innocents
2018 · сингл
Superman / Two Lights (Live with String Quartet)
2018 · сингл
Christmas Under the Stars (Live)
2017 · альбом
Christmas Where You Are (feat. Jim Brickman)
2017 · сингл
Christmas Every Day of the Year
2016 · сингл
Born to Win
2016 · сингл
All for One
2014 · сингл
Bookmarks
2013 · альбом
Slice
2010 · альбом
Live
2007 · альбом
Rhapsody Originals
2007 · Мини-альбом
Two Lights
2006 · альбом
World
2006 · сингл
2 + 2 Makes 5
2004 · Мини-альбом
The Devil In The Wishing Well
2004 · сингл
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Биография
Five for Fighting is the one-man band of John Ondrasik, who rose to fame in 2001 on the strength of the Grammy-nominated pop/rock ballad "Superman (It's Not Easy)," which became popular after the events of September 11, 2001. Over the next two decades, Ondrasik issued a string of emotionally charged Top 40 hits, including "100 Years," "The Riddle," "World," "Chances," and "Blood on My Hands," thus cementing Five for Fighting's status as one of contemporary pop music's most enduring balladeers. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Ondrasik started his musical training when he was only two years old. His mother, a piano teacher, gave him lessons, and he began turning his attention to guitar at the age of 13. He taught himself to use the latter instrument and soon began writing music. Somewhere along the way, he also took vocal lessons in opera. After discovering that opera wasn't his cup of tea, Ondrasik shifted his focus once again, this time turning to artists like Billy Joel, Journey, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and Earth, Wind & Fire for inspiration. Using the stage name Five for Fighting -- a term he appropriated from ice hockey's rule book -- Ondrasik made his major-label debut in 1997 by releasing Message for Albert. He then left the roster of his original label, Capitol Records, and signed with Columbia before issuing America Town. Released in 2000, the album furthered Ondrasik's themes of love and life while adding a political spin, a combination that yielded warm reviews but sluggish sales. America Town might have been another strong outing from a talented (yet commercially invisible) songwriter were it not for the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the nation's subsequent embrace of the delicate piano ballad "Superman (It's Not Easy)." Five for Fighting performed the song at the Concert for New York City that winter, and America Town went platinum several months later. While it was a bittersweet way to find fame, the single's success gave Ondrasik the artistic license he'd always craved. When The Battle for Everything appeared in early 2004, it was Five for Fighting's most stylistically ambitious and lyrically bold recording to date. It also yielded another high-charting single, "100 Years." 2006's Two Lights continued Ondrasik's exploration of blue-collar America by focusing on love, mortality, war, and family. The LP yielded the hits "World" and "The Riddle." A concert album entitled Back Country Live arrived in 2007, followed by Slice -- featuring several songs, including the Billboard-charting "Chances," co-written by musical theater composer Steven Schwartz -- in October 2009. Ondrasik reunited with producer Gregg Wattenberg -- who had previously worked with Ondrasik on America Town -- for his sixth album Bookmarks. Released in September 2013, the album featured the adult contemporary hit "What If." 2016 saw the release of the standalone single "Born to Win," which appeared on the season eight finale of American Ninja Warrior. In 2017, he collaborated with Jim Brickman on the holiday song "Christmas Where You Are," and in 2018, he recorded "The Song of Innocents" for the end credits of the film Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer. Ondrasik went viral in 2021 after releasing "Blood on My Hands" and its graphic, accompanying video, both of which criticized the withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan. He continued in that political mode with the release of 2022's "Can One Man Save the World?," a song honoring Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. ~ Charlotte Dillon & Andrew Leahey, Rovi